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OpenAI's Viral Sora 2 App Requires a Code to Get Your Hands on It

The new AI social media app is taking the internet by surprise. If you'd like to join in on the creativity, here's how to get an invite code.
InfoWorld

Google enhances debugging, performance in Opal, its low-code AI-based app builder

Opal is being rolled out to 15 countries, including Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, ...
The Verge

Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...
TechSpot

Microsoft turns to Anthropic's AI for Visual Studio Code, raising eyebrows about OpenAI ties

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...
Reuters

Nvidia and Abu Dhabi institute launch joint AI and robotics lab in the UAE

Abu Dhabi to host first Nvidia AI Technology Center in Middle East TII to use Thor chip to advance robotics research, development Joint lab to explore AI applications in areas such as climate, energy, ...
Android Authority

Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming

Google has delayed releasing the source code for Android 16 QPR1, worrying custom ROM developers who rely on timely AOSP (Android Open Source Project) updates. While Google typically publishes source ...
Business Wire

WHOOP to Bring Clinical Lab Testing from Quest Diagnostics to the WHOOP App

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WHOOP, the human performance company, today announced that Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), a leading provider of diagnostic information services, will be the U.S. lab provider ...
The New York Times

Finding God in the App Store

Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high. Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high. Nolan Pelletier Supported by Millions of people are turning to chatbots to ...
TechCrunch

Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent

There’s been great interest in what Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding and the all-star team of former OpenAI researchers who have joined the lab. In a ...
Space.com

'If it's possible, it must be done': Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has his eyes on missions to Mars and Venus

Rocket Lab wants to bring NASA's Perseverance rover samples back from Mars. As interest in Mars Sample Return (MSR) resurfaces, Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck says his company already has ...
Boston Herald

Climate tracking apps measure your carbon footprint. Here’s how they work

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s Swiss glaciers ...
Phys.org

Researchers trace genetic code's origins to early protein structures

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...